Prior to his time in India, Kentaro did computer vision and multimedia
research at
Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA, USA and
Cambridge, UK, and taught mathematics at
Ashesi University in Accra, Ghana.

Kentaro graduated from Yale with a PhD in Computer Science and from Harvard
with a bachelors degree in Physics. He was born in Tokyo, raised in both Japan
and the United States, and now lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.